How to render markdown with perfectly highlighted code snippets original
When reading technical blogpost around the web, you might have noticed that code highlighting is not always perfect.
Shiki is the code highlighter that uses the textmate parser VSCode uses under the hood. The code highlighting it provides is near perfect, even when using modern syntax. It supports 100+ languages (via our package Blade is supported too), and all VS Code themes.
I'm proud to announce that we have released three new Spatie packages that make it easy to use Shiki in your PHP projects:
- shiki-php: makes it easy to call Shiki from PHP to highlight a given code snippet
- commonmark-shiki-highlighter: allows commonmark to highlight all code snippets in a markdown fragment
- laravel-markdown: a batteries included Laravel package that offers a Blade component to easily render Markdown with highlighted code snippets and a class to render Markdown manually.
We're already using this package to render all our documentation pages, our guidelines, and this very blog you are reading.
